The Pigou Family Crest

Charles Edward Pigou. Taken from a 19th century bookplate. According to Anthony Pincott of the Bookplate Society the Pigou family were French Huguenots who fled to England to escape persecution in France. Jacques and Jean (John) Pigou, the sons of Lawrence Pigou of Amiens, settled in England circa 1685. John's son Anselm Frederick Pigou (1683-1749) was a successful merchant in the American trade and married Catherine Camin. Their son, Frederick Pigou (1711-1792) was also a successful merchant in the American tea trade, a Director of the East India Company and the proprietor of a Gunpowder Factory at Dartford in Kent. He married Henrietta Dunbar Hawthorne and they had several children, the youngest of whom was Charles Edward (1755-1841) who married Charlotte Rycroft )1773-1813) in 1792. Frederick and Henrietta Pigou's descendants have spread to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Pigou is French for Pike and the shield in the Pigou arms is charged with three pikes head.

Family

Pigou

Motto

J'aime la libertéI love liberty

Blazon

A Bird Rising With Laurel Branch In It's Beak.

Source

Bookplates